Tuesday, 1 April 2014

An utter though curious failure:
bombastic, pretentious and dull from the first frame on, with performances that
nauseate. In an attempt to do an origin story on the world's first superhero,
Aronofsky has created something that's more like Ridley Scott meshed with
warmed-over Tom Hooper. But it certainly is singular.

After the
cataclysmic events of The Avengers,
Steve Rogers, who is living a peaceful life in Washington D.C., is threatened
by presence of a new enemy.

A fairly tame effort in the Marvel canon
with a great deal of winking at the camera. There are a number of dynamic
set-pieces but the metronomic flatness that emits from all the Marvel films
outside The
Avengers is becoming destructive.